KV II Model 1941

Model number 7 in Armor Series, KV-II in 1/35 scale...price $4.95, purchase model via PAYPAL and model will send to you after payment confirmation.

When the KV-1 tank was tested in Winter War, it was noticed that the gun in KV-1, couldn't penetrate the bunkers of Mannerheim Line. Immediately after this was noticed, the designers started to build a tank, that could destroy these kind of bunkers.

This new tank was based on the KV-1 tank design. A. Zdanov supervised the building of this new heavy tank. The Kirov factory in Leningrad, build quickly four tanks and they participated the battles in Mannerheim Line, in February 1940. In the first battle, one of the KV-2 tanks, received 48 hits to it's turret, but none of them penetrated the armor.

Due to it's huge gun, the turret was very big. The mass production of this tank begun immediately during the Winter war and ended in the autumn of 1941.

In 1941, there were some KV-2 tanks, in the front were the German armed forces were attacking. Also the Finnish troops encountered one of these tanks, in the direction of Salla, which they destroyed, using an explosive that weighted 60 kilograms.

The KV-2 was armed either with a 152 mm gun or with 122 mm gun, but the most common tank version was with the 152 mm gun.